Comment by skookumchuck
6 years ago
There are people who create art, and those who study/analyze art. I've often suspected the latter were just seeing pictures in clouds.
6 years ago
There are people who create art, and those who study/analyze art. I've often suspected the latter were just seeing pictures in clouds.
"When art critics get together they discuss form and meaning; when artists get together they talk about where you can get cheap turpentine", as the expression goes.
(Usually attributed to Picasso but seems to be apocryphal)
I disagree, I think it's easy to look at this quote and say "yeah it doesn't really mean anything". But just because the author didn't intend for something, that doesn't mean it can't be interpreted that way.
Yes the ocean is the ocean, and the sea is the sea, and the fish is the fish, but if you were just to literally take the story at face value, it would be boring. Things come to be symbolic through their participation in the story. The fish doesn't represent anything literally. But the fish, and the man's battle with the fish, can be abstracted to any medium... that's the whole point of the fictional story. You're telling the story, but what is the point of the story, what is the subtext? The story is really about determination, and respect for another living being, the fish and the sea are simply the medium through which the real story is told.